Ocrad - The GNU OCR

Introduction

GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a
feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm
(greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or
UTF-8 formats.

Also includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or
blocks of text normally found on printed pages.

Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a
backend to other programs.

Documentation

The manual is available in the info system of the GNU
Operating System. Use info to access the top level info
page. Use info ocrad to access the ocrad section directly.

How to Get Help

For general discussion of bugs in ocrad the mailing list
bug-ocrad@gnu.org
is the most appropriate forum. Please send messages as plain text.
Please do not send messages encoded as HTML nor encoded as base64 MIME
nor included as multiple formats. Please include a descriptive subject
line. If all of the subject are "bug in ocrad" it is impossible to
differentiate them.

How to Help

To contact the author, either to report a bug or to contribute fixes or
improvements, send mail to
bug-ocrad@gnu.org.
Please send messages as plain text. If posting patches they should be in
unified diff format against the latest version. They should include a
text description.

Licensing

Ocrad is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.